PSC 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Normative Social Influence, Continuity Equation, Birth Order
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Psc 162: personality puzzle ch. 7- personality stability, development and change. People show a strong tendency to maintain their distinctive patterns of behavior throughout life. This stability is called rank-order consistency, they tend to maintain the ways in which they are different from other people the same age. Temperament: the personality that one begins with, to some degree determined by the genes inherited from one"s parents. Heterotypic continuity: fundamental tendencies change with age. Birth order: first borns are conventionally ambitious and support traditional values; later borns are more likely to be independent, open-minded and even rebellious. Person-environment transactions: people tend to respond to and even create environments that are compatible with, and may magnify, their personality traits. Reactive person-environment transaction: differential responses to situations due to personality traits. Evocative person-environment transaction: people do not just choose their environments, they change them. Cumulative continuity principle: individual differences in personality become more consistent as one gets older.
